Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Isonicotinylation is a histone mark induced by the anti-tuberculosis first-line drug isoniazid

  • Yuhan Jiang,
  • Yixiao Li,
  • Cheng Liu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Danyu Lv,
  • Yejing Weng,
  • Zhongyi Cheng,
  • Xiangmei Chen,
  • Jun Zhan,
  • Hongquan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25867-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Isoniazid (INH) is an anti-tuberculosis drug; however the underlying cause of its various side effects are not understood. Here the authors identified lysine isonicotinylation as a histone modification on chromatin that is metabolically regulated by INH and its metabolites.